Science Discoveries for the Whole Family

 
Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall?

 

Read the online How Come? columns:

What is ball lightning?

Why is the cashew the only nut you cannot buy in its shell?

How come our fingers are different sizes and lengths?

Why does ice cream melt?

Why does the Moon seem to follow us when we drive?

Why don’t we have just one big nostril instead of two?

How come some cereals make a popping sound when you pour on milk? And why do we get white spots on our fingernails?

How does ice cream give you brain freeze?

Why do giraffes have such long necks?

Why do songs get stuck in your head?

Why Do Elephants Have Trunks?

Why Does Water Expand When It Cools?

Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall?

How come it is still light for an hour after the sun sets?

Which came first -- the chicken or the egg?

How can liquid nitrogen be so cold and not freeze into a solid?

How Come the Moon Looks So Big Sometimes?

How Come Birds Can Sit on Electrical Wires?

How do cats see in the dark?

Time Travel in the Wink of an Eye

Where Do Bugs Go in Winter?

Sink or Swim in Quicksand?

A Toy With Many Happy Returns

How come the sky is blue?

How did zebras get their stripes?

Why are bubbles round?

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Click HERE to listen to the WIND SOUNDS mentioned in the November 18, 2003 How Come? column in Newsday

This How Come? web site is based on the  newspaper column written by Kathy Wollard and illustrated by Debra Solomon

How Come? appears in Newsday in New York every week.

 

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